| Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 trang
...Jtochefvtiea«ld. d. And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. — Dryden. c. As cold waters to a thirsty... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 trang
...Soldiers. Haw in fields the rude Militia swarms ; Mouths without hands : maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they mareh, a blustering band. And ever, but in times of need, at hand. Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, 400.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 trang
...Soldiers. Raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands : maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. 3242 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 40ft... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 trang
...192. And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. Cymon and fpliigenia. Line 400. Of seeming... | |
| Walter Scott - 1885 - 912 trang
...little sharply — but then John was a Jacobite — ' Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand.' I fancy they halted just now, taking us,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 trang
...And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ;* 400 Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand : This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1886 - 818 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense, lu peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band. And ever. but in time of need, at hand. This was the mom when, issuing on the guard,... | |
| John Charles Cox - 1890 - 460 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swaims ; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense — In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand. This was the morn, when, issuing on the guard,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1852 - 808 trang
...alarms, And now in fields the rude militia swarms. Mouths without hands maintaincd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they march a blustering band, And ever, but in times of nced, at hand. This was the morn when issuing on the guard,... | |
| John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 trang
...And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ;* 400 Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
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